{"product_id":"stolen-dreams-9781496219459","title":"Stolen Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe civil rightsera story of young boys whose dreams of playing in the Little League World Series were dashed, not by a loss to a more formidable team, but because of the color of their skin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lamb's engaging and thought-provoking book provides readers with a unique story about integration, segregation, and America's pastime and cannot be recommended highly enough.\"—Chad S. Wise, \u003ci\u003eNINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStolen Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e works as a history told at the intersection of sports, civil rights, and southern memory, reminding readers of how often those fields are closely woven together.\"—Robert Greene II, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lamb includes grand context of what was happening in South Carolina, the South and American courts during the tumultuous early 1950s. That makes \u003ci\u003eStolen Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e . . . a slick double-play: academically worthy of any Palmetto State history syllabus and perfect for a baseball fan's 2022 season reading list.\"—Gene Sapakoff, \u003ci\u003ePost and Courier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eStolen Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e] meticulously documents an important moment, and team, that few people will know but should. It’s about the collision of racism and baseball, years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, and shows just how far Blacks had left to go to be accepted in America’s pastime. Lamb writes this story with affection, grace, and skill.”—Mike Freeman, editor of race and inequality at \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chris Lamb takes a forgotten baseball tournament and a forgotten moment in the civil rights struggle and spins them into an unforgettable story, proving, as Martin Luther King Jr. might have said, that the long arc of a batted ball bends toward justice. With impressive research and sharp insight, Lamb illustrates once again the important role baseball plays in understanding and shaping American culture.”—Jonathan Eig, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eOpening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sports is a brilliant and bracing window for understanding Jim Crow segregation in the South. With this book, Chris Lamb uncovers a narrative in this history that few readers will know: a history of racism, injustice, baseball, and the kids crushed by the hatreds of adults. I can’t recommend this book enough. It speaks to the past brilliantly, but it also speaks to our troubled present. A necessary and important read.”—Dave Zirin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lamb has presented Little League Baseball as a microcosm of Jim Crowism with so many history lessons of shame, sadness, and racial injustices propagated by the white majority. Lamb fires cannon shots with explosive narratives about Octavius Catto, Judge J. Waties Waring, Isaac Woodard, Robert Morrison, Robert Small, Frazier B. Baker, and others. This narrative is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the Lost Cause obsession for control in America.”—Larry Lester, Negro League Baseball historian and author\u003cbr\u003e“Chris Lamb’s thorough and eloquent account embodies the best tradition of civil rights scholarship, exposing America’s long history of racism, particularly in Charleston, a city built literally on the backs of enslaved people. Redemptive at its core, \u003ci\u003eStolen Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of all of the importance of telling the stories of African Americans that have so often been erased, forgotten, or neglected.”—Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina poet laureate, 2003–20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. “The Team Nobody Would Play”\u003cbr\u003e 2. America’s Original Sin\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Charleston Baseball Riot\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Lost Cause\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Accommodationist\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Blinding of Isaac Woodard\u003cbr\u003e 7. “It’s Time for South Carolina to Rejoin the Union”\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Story of Little League Baseball\u003cbr\u003e 9. The YMCA\u003cbr\u003e 10. Even the Ocean Was Segregated\u003cbr\u003e 11. \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. “A Dastardly Act”\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Long Time Coming\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Trip to Williamsport\u003cbr\u003e 15. “Let Them Play!”\u003cbr\u003e 16. Emmett Till\u003cbr\u003e 17. “Paper Curtain”\u003cbr\u003e 18. The Civil Rights Movement in Charleston\u003cbr\u003e 19. Gus Holt’s Crusade\u003cbr\u003e 20. Return to Williamsport\u003cbr\u003e 21. No City Owes Its Success More to the Whipping of Slaves\u003cbr\u003e 22. The “Emanuel Nine”\u003cbr\u003e 23. John Rivers’s Dream\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409229586775,"sku":"9781496219459","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496219459.jpg?v=1730506051","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stolen-dreams-9781496219459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}